CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Nueces County residents gathered on the sixth floor of Corpus Christi City Hall Monday night for a meeting regarding the City’s groundwater efforts and what those plans could mean for people living in outlying communities.
The Corpus Christi Aquifer Storage and Recovery Conservation District hosted the meeting, giving members of the public an opportunity to hear its plan. However, not everyone in attendance agreed with the proposal.
“We’ll we’ve already heard it, one person got up talking about their wells going dry,” said Scott Barraza and Kelly Harlan, two of several residents who spoke during the meeting. The conservation district discussed the city’s efforts related to groundwater wells in Nueces County…